Kidney Care Community News

The Lupus Research Alliance granted its 2023 Global Team Science Award to a multidisciplinary team to study pediatric lupus nephritis, according to a press release.

In my youth, the thought of being a dialysis technician never entered my mind. The start of my journey into the dialysis world was through the military.

A dialysis clinic that remained undamaged after a fire destroyed most of the historic town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, Hawaii, last month remains closed because electricity and access to water have not been restored.

The profession of renal health care is evolving, with breakthroughs in research and innovative treatments that improve the lives of millions of patients with kidney disease.

Diality Inc. has raised $28 million to advance its mobile hemodialysis system through regulatory and clinical review, according to a company press release.

Patients with reduced kidney function who are discharged without clinically evident residual disease had an 18% increase in mortality a year after hospitalization, data show.

Healthmap Solutions Inc. has raised $100 million to advance its kidney disease-focused population health management business, nearly tripling the size of a spring 2022 funding round, according to a press release.

Outset Medical stock value took a significant downturn after the company announced in its second-quarter earnings report that it was pausing shipment of its TabloCart to obtain FDA 510(k) approval.

Quanta Dialysis Technologies has received FDA 510(k) clearance for an expanded version of the Quanta Dialysis System hemodialysis device, according to a press release.

A new educational patient-decision aid received high acceptability ratings from older adults with kidney disease and their caregivers, according to published data.